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After the Majestics had left everyone had stood around for a while talking, eventually most people had gone back to thier rooms, Mariah and Ray had been the last two people in the room and after much whispering between themselves they had left but not without a sweet parting remark from Ray
"We'll leave you two lovebirds alone"
Hilary sent a look of anger after Mariah and Kai wanted to hurt Ray more than he had ever wanted to hurt someone before! So there they were, the two of them were the only ones left in the piano room, Kai wanted to say something but couldn't quite think how to begin it,
"Kai?" Hilary was looking at him curiously "are you OK?"
"Fine" Kai had returned to his old cold manner, he decided that this would be the best way to cope with the coming rejection, He heard her sigh and slowly went to stand near her, and as gently as he could while still sounding cold (which FYI is very hard to do) he asked "are you OK?"
"No, …. Kai about what happened before…" she trailed off leaving the sentence hanging.
"What about it?"
"Nothing"
"Right" another awkward silence followed Hilary finally decided to do something. Getting up from her seat she stood in front of Kai concentrating on her fingernails,
"I shouldn't have done it, kissed you I mean!" Hilary looked down at her hands "The thing is, I like you and have done for a while, all the same I shouldn't have put you in that position"
"Hilary" Kai stared at her, she was gazing at the ground now and turning quickly she went to walk out of the room, instinctively Kai reached out and grabbed her arm, she tried to shake him off but he could see her shoulders shaking and tears falling from her eyes. She was crying hard now and he pulled her into his chest, for a couple of moments she tried to fight him off but he held her close his strong arms unyeilding until she fell against his chest crying.
"Sorry" she muttered "I just keep crying at the moment" Kai smiled down at her stroking the chocolate brown tresses with one hand and holding her in place with one strong arm, her face was hidden in his chest and all he wanted to do was kiss her better.
"It's OK, but I might get offended if you cry everytime I'm about to kiss you" she looked up and was surprised at the hungry look in his eyes.
"Kai?" she opened her mouth to ask him what he meant and this gave Kai the entrance he wanted, he pushed his lips up against her silencing her question. The two of them melted into the embrace, once more holding each other close. Pulling away for a second he looked down at her astonished face and smirked saying,
"I like you too"
Hilary's face broke into a grin "Well that's lucky," she slid her arms up his and slowly ran her hands through his hair, Kai pulled her close again and the two of them resumed their activities.
A figure by the door moved into the room and towards them angrily
"Dad!" Hilary noticed him out the corner of her eye and pulled away from Kai, she watched fearfully as her furious father walked forward.
"Get your hands off her!" The two of them pulled further apart surprised but Kai kept an arm around her.
"Dad!" Hilary felt Kai's grip tighten and instinctively she raised her arm sliding it around his waist. They stood silently, the two men staring their eyes battling each other angrily finally Hilary's father spoke.
"Hilary come away from him"
"Dad please"
"I am not asking you again" (typical parent thing to say)
"Leave her alone"
"Stay out of this"
"No!" Kai was defiant
"Kai, Dad please, let it go" Hilary felt like running back up to the safety of the roof and screaming again
"Hilary GO TO YOUR ROOM!"
"You have got to be kidding me" Hilary was shocked no one had said that to her in years, she was about to tell her father this when she felt Kai guiding her to the door
"Where do you think you are taking her?"
"I am taking her to her room" Kai pulled Hilary towards the door and opened it his eyes were full of anger "you want to talk to me, we can talk later."
After Kai had walked Hilary to her room he turned and headed back to the office where he had first met Hilary's father. Mr Tatibana sat behind his desk, Jordan was standing by his chair looking grim and behind him stood every member of his family, about 15 people in all. "What is this attack of the drones?" Kai smirked
"I want you to stay away from my daughter"
"And I want world peace, I don't think either of us will get our wish anytime soon"
"You will not have anything to do with her"
"I think that's for her to decide" He watched as Jordan walked towards him
"If you go near my sister again."
"Sir" Kai looked at the man sitting across the table and ignoring the young man invading his personal space "I can make her happy, You want her to be miserable that's fine, but I won't do that to her" He turned and started to walk away as he did so he thought of something he turned his head and said over his shoulder "perhaps you ought to talk to her, it's her feelings that are important."
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Hilary lay back on her bed and unable to control herself, laughing slightly maniacally she kicked her heels into her mattress and hugged her pillow tight. She had just told Kai how she felt, finally! and he reciprocated her feelings, and more to the point they had kissed!
Again!
Suddenly the door opened and a very upset Mariah stalked into the room,
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing" Mariah was glowering, she sat hard on Hilary's bed and flopped down in a lieing position next to her. Tears were trickling out from under her eyes and seeing this Hilary put her arms around her.
"If this is you when nothings wrong, I would hate to see you on a bad day! Want to talk?"
"Not about me"
"Ok lets talk about something else," Hilary smiled at the pinkette and realised that she really needed to talk about something distracting "lets talk about the fact that I may have embarked on a very stupid course of action"
"What?" Mariah distracted for a second stopped crying "Hils what have you done?" Glad to take her friends mind off whatever was troubling her Hilary grinned.
"Not much, I just kinda kissed Kai," Mariah sat up squealing
"Oh My God!"
"I know!" Hilary squealed back
"How kinda?"
"Well not so much kinda kissed him as full on french kissed him!"
"When? Was it on the roof in the rain? Oh how romantic"
"That was the first time"
"First time?"
"The second time was in the piano room"
"How come you didn't tell me about it the first time?"
"I thought it was a pity kiss"
"Yeah right, Hilary you should have seen the look on Kais face when Enrique was chatting you up,"
"I did," Hilary grinned it had secretly thrilled her to see Kai so jealous,
"He so likes you, this is great!"
"Well my dad doesn't like it"
"What?"
"He caught us, he was MAD."
"Oh fathers always hate to see their daughters in relationships, my dad is ridiculously strict"
"I guess that it's just one thing I have never had to deal with, mum was relaxed about that kind of thing."
"You and Kai!" Mariah smiled " but that actually makes a weird kind of sense."
"Thanks I think!"
"No its just that…" Mariah struggled to explain "He's so big, scary, reclusive and cold, your so little, harmless, outgoing and warm. Its like two opposites"
"Kai isn't scary or cold, at least not anymore."
"Since you started spending all your time with the Blade Breakers?"
"Well I wouldn't say that" Hilary thought about it, was she a good influence on Kai?
"Although I have to admit the conversations would be very one sided"
"Kai and I talk all the time"
"Really? Actual talking, not you saying something and him going 'hn' as though that's a decent response"
"Yeah actual talking" they grinned at each other
"Ray never said anything about it, you know Kai talking"
"Well he only really talks to me, but we do talk"
"Aw you two are sweet"
"I'll tell him you said that"
"Yeah and have him kill me good plan."
"You said we were sweet"
"It's just that I saw him after you almost drowned, he didn't want to let you go"
"So?"
"I remember the description of Kai dating, he seemed uncomfortable all the time, when he and the girl kissed he made it short and he never stood with his arm around them. He didn't even hold hands or initiate physical contact or public displays of affection. He doesn't like to be touched Ray told me..." Mariah sat back giggling at Hilary's confused face, suddenly she remembered something and began crying again
"Oh Honey" Hilary wrapped an arm around her "tell me about it"
"I found something and" Mariah stopped reaching over Hilary and grabbing something off her bedside table "Oh my god where did you get these razors? Can I borrow?"
"Sure they aren't mine" Hilary blinked astonished at the sudden change in mood
"What?"
"Well I wasn't about to ask a male family member for that, they probably don't even know what a tampon is"
"So how did you get them"
"I heard Hiro ask for some so I went into his room and 'borrowed' a few." Hilary made quotation marks with her fingers as she said borrowed
"Sneaky" Mariah smiled through her tears approvingly
"Why do you need razors so bad?, please tell me Ray isn't visiting tonight"
"I doubt it" Mariah sounded a little spiteful
"What's happened?"
"Ray has a picture of me in his wallet"
"That's terrible" Hilary said confused and her voice dripping sarcasm
"He also has a picture of a redhead, it says Thank you for everything, Love Salima on the back"
"Oh!"
"Who is she?"
"Mariah she's just a blader we met, we went through some tough times"
"What happened between them?"
"Nothing, they were just friends"
"Nothing happened between them?"
"Not as far as I know"
"Really helpful"
"Mariah she was only around for a couple of months" Hilary looked at the young girl she wracked her brains trying to think of something to say. Hilary couldn't think of anything Salima and Ray had been close, they had met up when no one else was around. She couldn't even think of anything bitchy to say, lets face it after Salima left behind the cyber bitbeasts she had been really nice
"Hil's?" Mariah looked at her sadly "I love him" fresh tears poured down her face, if Hilary hadn't known better she would have thought someone was dead! Hilary looked at her friend
"But that's good, isn't it?"
"Not if I can't trust him" Mariah sat up and continued to weep "Not if he doesn't love me back"
"But he does I'm sure of it" Hilary stroked her friends hair gently they sat like this for a while, an alarmingly large amount of screwed up tissue paper grew by their feet "Mariah, when you went missing Ray was a mess he couldn't cope with the idea of losing you, he almost collapsed and spent half of his time staring out of windows crying"
"Really?" the tearful girl sniffed
"Yes really, look you have a shower use the razors, I have to go see someone I will be right back. Be ready in half an hour and we'll do something together"
"Don't go to see Ray"
"I have to see my Dad"
"OK, as long as thats all you're doing" Hilary grinned as she left the room, she hadn't really told a lie, she would visit her dad! After a quick detour.
Thanks for reading, sorry this is all a bit slow it will get better I hope!
R&R